From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 10:55:29 MDT
Lee writes
>> Maybe general semantics and a course of logic should
>> be included in journalism schools.
>
> Yes, it is indeed sad to see even young reporters who
> lapse immediately upon graduation to the two-valued
> prevalent aristotelian orientations, adopt bad s.r,
> e.g., fail to adopt *structural* and multi-ordinal
> semanitic relations, employ elementalistic terminology,
> intensional definitions, employ undue generalization,
> unanalyzed linguistic habits., to such a degree that
> it's probably too late to re-educate the younger
> generation with null-A non-habitual s.r, remove
> semantic blockages,.
Could it be that "s.r." refers to the "semanitic relations" mentioned in
this intriguing, but strangely less than clear writing about writing?
Lee, would you do us the favor of elucidating the above?
- Jef
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